1*835f6802SDirk Vogt 2ef01931fSBen Gras#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3*835f6802SDirk Vogt# $File: uuencode,v 1.7 2009/09/19 16:28:13 christos Exp $ 4ef01931fSBen Gras# uuencode: file(1) magic for ASCII-encoded files 5ef01931fSBen Gras# 6ef01931fSBen Gras 7ef01931fSBen Gras# GRR: the first line of xxencoded files is identical to that in uuencoded 8ef01931fSBen Gras# files, but the first character in most subsequent lines is 'h' instead of 9ef01931fSBen Gras# 'M'. (xxencoding uses lowercase letters in place of most of uuencode's 10ef01931fSBen Gras# punctuation and survives BITNET gateways better.) If regular expressions 11ef01931fSBen Gras# were supported, this entry could possibly be split into two with 12ef01931fSBen Gras# "begin\040\.\*\012M" or "begin\040\.\*\012h" (where \. and \* are REs). 13ef01931fSBen Gras0 search/1 begin\ uuencoded or xxencoded text 14ef01931fSBen Gras 15ef01931fSBen Gras# btoa(1) is an alternative to uuencode that requires less space. 16ef01931fSBen Gras0 search/1 xbtoa\ Begin btoa'd text 17ef01931fSBen Gras 18ef01931fSBen Gras# ship(1) is another, much cooler alternative to uuencode. 19ef01931fSBen Gras# Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu 20ef01931fSBen Gras0 search/1 $\012ship ship'd binary text 21ef01931fSBen Gras 22ef01931fSBen Gras# bencode(8) is used to encode compressed news batches (Bnews/Cnews only?) 23ef01931fSBen Gras# Greg Roelofs, newt@uchicago.edu 24ef01931fSBen Gras0 search/1 Decode\ the\ following\ with\ bdeco bencoded News text 25ef01931fSBen Gras 26ef01931fSBen Gras# BinHex is the Macintosh ASCII-encoded file format (see also "apple") 27ef01931fSBen Gras# Daniel Quinlan, quinlan@yggdrasil.com 28ef01931fSBen Gras11 search/1 must\ be\ converted\ with\ BinHex BinHex binary text 29ef01931fSBen Gras>41 search/1 x \b, version %.3s 30ef01931fSBen Gras 31ef01931fSBen Gras# GRR: handle BASE64 32